Alpha Phi Omega As A Leader

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LEADERSHIP
(Excerpt From APO-USA, Pledge Manual)

Alpha Phi Omega teaches us through our principles of Leadership, Friendship and Service that we are the architects of our own ambitions and that each of us has the opportunity to develop ourselves to be whatever we seek to be. In the area of leadership, from within our own fraternity, people are transformed from followers to leaders sometimes without really being aware of the development. It can happen gradually, or it might happen overnight – today a follower, tomorrow a leader.

The Fraternity has several programs to help brothers become better leaders by developing their own personal skills as well as learning more about chapter operations.

APO LEADS: At the completion of the APO LEADS series of courses, you will have a set of transferable skills that are applicable to the work world and to other organizational leadership. APO LEADS is not just for pledges and actives; alumni are welcome to take or retake the courses as well. Following are

descriptions for each component: The APO LEADS program, a personal odyssey of learning, leading and serving, consists of five components of leadership development – LAUNCH, EXPLORE, ACHIEVE, DISCOVER and SERVE. Each of the five components focus on skills that will help you become a successful leader and team member in APO and in life. 

The following are descriptions of each component:

LAUNCHING your leadership development is an introductory leadership session. 

It is the launching point in your personal odyssey of leadership development and is a prerequisite session for the remaining four APO LEADS components. LAUNCH helps you learn what leadership is, what the differences are between leadership and management skills, how to deal with change and much more.

EXPLORING personal leadership strengths and potential is presented as a full-day session, providing an opportunity to expand your personal odyssey into leadership development by increasing your understanding

of individual leadership skills, values, ethics, morals, qualities, effective problem-solving and conflict management.

ACHIEVING success through teams is a session focusing on the interaction between chapter members,

the leaders, and the factors that lead to team success. This learning process will energize, empower and

recognize the respectful roles people may play on the team, as well as celebrate team success.

DISCOVERING management strengths and skills offers opportunities to learn strategies and skills needed to effectively operate a chapter, which will lead to success in your personal odyssey.

SERVING the Fraternity and the world as a leader is the final phase to utilize your skills of effective leadership. Upon completion, you can make the commitment to seek out opportunities at the chapter, sectional, regional or national levels, which will help lead APO to unlimited success.

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APO IMPACT: This program’s goal is to build a national officer training program that will produce

better and well-run chapters. The IMPACT program is envisioned as a unique hybrid of sorts, as it borrows

from the best of our current programs and resources. Not all chapters operate the same way nor do they have the same officer positions. However, there are certain skills and concepts that are universal. 

The APO IMPACT courses are designed to ensure the successful administration and stewardship of Alpha Phi Omega’s chapters. APO IMPACT’s courses are divided into two sections: APO IMPACT Guides and APO IMPACT Live. The APO IMPACT Guides are a series of dynamic documents aimed to lay a foundation for every member of a chapter. Whether a brother holds an appointed, narrowly-focused position of leadership or is an officer with broader responsibilities, he/she can utilize the information contained in the guides. Each APO IMPACT Guide will have assigned skills in order to fulfill the needs of each respective position.They are a set of guides that provide a, “how to,” for the usual duties of the most

common chapter offices. If you don’t see a booklet titled with your office, look through the ones that are there. The information you are seeking may still be included To complement this, APO IMPACT Live is a series of courses for conferences and live webinar sessions. These courses will reinforce the knowledge found in the APO IMPACT officer manuals. APO IMPACT Live provides real-time, interactive workshop-format seminars for the development of solid chapters. These seminars will focus on officer-specific responsibilities and the application of certain skills. Because these are offered in a webinar format all anyone needs to participate is a computer with a good internet connection and speakers. A schedule of upcoming APO IMPACT Live webinars can be found on www.apo.org. The Chapter Assessment and Planning Session (CAPS) is a tool to help chapters identify goals and begin to plan programs for the coming year, based on an assessment of the past year. It is not designed to be a comprehensive, point-by-point analysis of chapter operations. It is also not designed to plan every activity or to set the calendar in stone for the coming year. However, it should identify areas the chapter wants to improve and key events or activities the chapter wants to see happen. The end result of the CAPS is documentation of goals and desires in a form that will help the chapter officers develop and implement plans for the coming year in a manner that represents what the chapter sees as most important. Further, it helps to think of planning as a cycle, not a straight-through process. Approaching planning as a cycle will help the chapter to ensure that plans are fully considered, focused, flexible, practical and effective. It will also provide an opportunity to evaluate and learn from any challenges that occur and then feed this information back into future planning and decision making.

Please visit www.apo.org for more information about APO’s Leadership Development Program. If you have any questions or suggestions about leadership development, please e-mail the Leadership Development Director at leadership.director@apo.org. 

Reference: Alpha Phi Omega- Pledge Manual 2009-2010, Retrieved https://www.apo.org/Support, Accessed 23August2013

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2011 BAR EXAMS; MLC NEW LAWYERS!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!! WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!!

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2011 BAR EXAMS PASSER

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR VERY OWN!!

ATTY. CHERYL PANTALEON

FOR PASSING THE 2011 BAR EXAMS....
MABUHAY KA SIS!!! YOU MADE OUR CHAPTER PROUD!!!

MLCians BAR PASSERS

CONGRATULATIONS to All of YOU....
YOU SURELY GAVE GLORY TO OUR ALMA MATER and YOU DESERVED OUR RESPECT!!!
MABUHAY KAYO ATTY.

HAPPY 8th Year Anniversary

MANILA LAW COLLEGE PETITIONING CHAPTER
8 years of LEADERSHIP, SERVICE and FRIENDSHIP....
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO ALL....
MABUHAY ANG ALPHA PHI OMEGA

MAY WE ALWAYS BE..... STRONG THE CIRCLE WE...

IN DEFENSE OF OUR FOUNDING

"Audemus jura nostra defendere" - We Dare To Defend Our Rights and We Dare To Maintain Our Rights

We appeal to facts and reasons as we here lay our defense in relation to the concern of our fraternal brothers and sisters in Upsilon Chapter. hope we can march hand in hand, side by side and in harmony towards the greatness of our beloved ALPHA PHI OMEGA. We established our chapter for sole purpose of carrying the objectives, missions and principles our institution APO nothing less. We respect UPSILON Chapter, after all we are in the same organization, with the same ideals, principles and objectives, i.e.: LEADERSHIP, FRIENDSHIP and SERVICE. May we always be...strong the circle we...

(copy of letter submitted to National Council duly received and archieved)
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July 31, 2003

The President
NATIONAL COUNCIL
Unit 3A, Residencia Braganza270 E. Gracia St., Cubao, Q.C.

Thru: ADJUDICATORY COUNCIL

Subject: Answer to the opposition made by Upsilon Chapter in letter dated 16th May 2003

Brothers and Sisters:

Fraternal Greetings!

This is with regard to the letter made by our fellow brothers in UPSILON Chapter of Philippine College of Criminology (hereafter called PCCR) dated 16th May 2003 and was received on 22nd May 2003 by the NATIONAL COUNCIL which substantially provides for the opposition of the existence of MANILA LAW COLLEGE (hereafter called MLC) as petitioning chapter.

For information, we were surprised upon learning the opposition considering that there was no manifestation as to such opposition was made by their Alumni President during the period in which we were starting to gather our membership (2001-2002). It was only this opening of school year 2003-2004 when we saw the copy of the above letter in our chapter’s bulletin board posted unauthorized.

After our chapter’s deliberation as to the matter, we unanimously decided to depend our side and lay our bases to render our capacity as a legitimate chapter. Legitimate in the sense that we are qualified to make representation to be bona fide chapter member of this prestigious institution.

Please note that we, as member of this distinguished organization definitely respect the territory of Upsilon chapter being the legitimate chapter in PCCR and we have no intention of evading it.

Hence:

1. We admit the allegations stated in numbers three(3) and four(4) of Upsilon’s chapter petition; and
2. We specifically deny the allegations stated in numbers one (1) and five (5) of their petition. Hereafter our established ground:

a. That, Upsilon chapter erred in concluding that PCCR AND MLC are of the same institution. Please be informed that MLC is in fact a distinct and separate institution founded and established since 1899 which formerly known as the ESCUELLA DE DERECHO DE MANILA and was then renamed only on 1924 as MANILA LAW COLLEGE. She was a registered institution with the SECURITY AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (hereafter called SEC) and other government agency concerned. AND, further recognized by the SUPREME COURT as a legitimate LAW SCHOLL.

The premise of UPSILON Chapter that “same ownership” entails same category as one institution is highly debatable and accepts correction. Please note that “SAME OWNERSHIP” status does not necessarily follows that they are the same institution, considering that MANILA LAW COLLEGE and PCCR has its own charter and by laws, mission and objective. As evidence by their respective registration with the SEC (MLC with SEC#0000085957 and PCCR SEC#000008758). Hence, such premise is very much erroneous. Further MLC bears her owned seal and logo which clear manifestation of being as such.

The premise of “THE SAME POSTAL ADDRESS” to consider the two institutions the same is unmeritorious. Please note that MLC postal address is different from PCCR as per their registered addresses with the SEC. MLC is No. 641 Sales Street Sta. Cruz Manila, whereas PCCR is No. 634 Sales Street Sta. Cruz Manila. Therefore, on that given merit, the two institutions cannot be considered in any manner as one.

b. The allegation of our fellow-brothers at UPSILON Chapter “that there was no such advised received verbal or written regarding the establishment of the MANILA LAW COLLEGE Chapter to co-exist of that Upsilon Chapter from the MANILA LAW COLLEGE Chapter founder” IS VOID OF MERIT. Because, during the period of our foundation or the time in which we were starting to gather our prospective member our founders have been in contact with their ALUMNI and yet there was no manifestation as to their opposition. (PLEASE NOTE THAT UPSILON HAS NO RESIDENT MEMBERS DURING SAID PERIOD HENCE OUR SOCIALIZING INVOLVES ONLY THEIR ALUMNI).

As we borrowed the phrase used by our fellow-brothers at UPSILON Chapter for which we affirmed, “That, MANILA LAW COLLEGE has no separate building due to low enrollee of students and only vacant rooms of the Philippine College of Criminology High School department”. With this we can assess that even them have on their mind that MANILA LAW COLLEGE is a separate institution. Only low number of enrollees precluded it. Please be informed that the MLC administration do not confine only with the present status as regards to the place in which they were situated but planned to have their separate building on its own once they meet the required budget.

Furthermore in history alone, we can say that MLC is very much different from PCCR.

With the foregoing we therefore respectfully prayed:

1. To set aside the petition made by our fraternal brothers in Upsilon Chapter;

2. To recognize the separate and distinct personality of the two institution (PCCR and MLC) since they are in fact have their own personality different from each other as evident by their registration with the SEC; and

3. To allow us proceed with our objective of furthering the principle and mission of this prestigious institution having on our shoulder the name and personality of our ALMA MATER, the MANILA LAW COLLEGE.

We these notes, we now submit and we hope and trust the above-mentioned merits are considered. Further, we definitely respect the control of UPSILON over their studentry and we have no intention of recruiting criminology students or any students of the PCCR in particular. Our membership is exclusively and primarily for the law students of MANILA LAW COLLEGE only.

Attached herewith is a copy CERTIFICATE OF CORPORATE FILING/INFORMATION issued by SEC dated 31st of July 2003 and copy of historical documents of MLC to support our contention.

Thank you very much.


Sincerely yours,


(Sgd)
John Wayne Versoza
Grand Chancellor


Noted:

(Sgd)
SPO2 Rommel Ybanez
Chapter’s Founder (Resident)

(Sgd)
Elwin John Verzosa
Chapter’s Founders

COMMENT BOARD

LET US BE HEARD !!! MAY WE ALWAYS BE....STRONG THE CIRCLE WE!!!
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